Those black bugs don't look big, they look a bit like ladybugs, but the ridges on their backs are not hard shells, but glossy black skin that looks extremely elastic.
The insects have no hair on their bodies and no wings. They have thin legs and short legs, which are exposed from under their bodies. They are densely packed and numerous.
I didn't see the eyes or mouthparts of those insects.
When the road extended all the way to the gate of the ancient city, Bai Yao withdrew his third palm.
Then, Bai Yao took out a small roll of white ribbon from his body and threw it towards the newly opened path.
The white satin ribbon spreads out automatically, gradually becoming wider and longer, not too big or too small, just laying on that road.
A bright white halo came out from the ribbon, enveloping a halo as high as a person.
"Let's go! Go over the ribbon and don't touch the grass on both sides, otherwise you will be entangled by those bugs and even the Great Luo Immortal will not be able to save you!" Bai Yao turned around and said to everyone.
I subconsciously looked at each other with Lu Xiaohong. No wonder even Sean and Bai Yao were willing to spend their spiritual energy to cross the grassland just now.
The ability of spiritual beings to perceive danger is indeed beyond our comparison.
"What kind of bugs are those?" Hao Jingde asked Bai Yao, "Why do they look like ticks to me?"
"It is indeed a type of tick, but their name is ghost-loving ghost ticks. They mainly suck spiritual energy, so the spiritual energy of practitioners' blood is even more delicious to them. You all have some abilities more or less.
As long as it is entangled with it, at least one's cultivation will be completely destroyed, and at worst, all bones will be lost." Bai Yao said.
Bai Yao then glanced at Dongzi and said, "But you're lucky, you don't have any spiritual energy in your body, so those ghost-hungry ghost ticks won't touch you."
"Bai Yao, how do you know this? Have you been to this place before?" I asked him curiously.
"I visited a place many years ago. The layout was very similar to this one, but that place was a living city with a large number of residents, while this place is obviously a dead city." Bai Yao said, staring at the ancient city wall.
"You mean, everything here is specially arranged by someone?" I asked Bai Yao.
"Logically speaking, it should be." Bai Yao said.
"Since you've been to a similar place, why were you so surprised when you first came in and said this was an alien space?" I asked doubtfully. "
"The two places are different! I fought with the Black Shadow Beast in the past, and after seeing the ghost-hungry ghost tick in the grass, I realized that this place is very similar to the place I have been to before," Bai Yao said.
"What's the difference between the two places?" I asked curiously.
"The place I visited before actually exists. No matter who it is, they can enter the city as long as they can avoid the attacks of ghost-hungry ghost ticks and black shadow beasts. But in this place, even the time is obviously different from the outside.
It's the same, doesn't it look like an alien space?" Bai Yao said.
"I've never seen such a phenomenon before! Forget it, no matter how many things there are, hurry up and go to the city first to have a look."
Before we could speak, Bai Yao said again.
"Shawn and I will go to the front. Hu Ling, Dongzi, Lian Tianshi, Shi Tianshi, and Chen Laizi will follow me. Uncle Hao, you and Bai Yao will be in the rear!" Lu Xiaohong said.
Seeing Bai Yao and Hao Jingde both nodded, Lu Xiaohong called Sean and said: "Sean, let's go!"
Sean jumped in front of Lu Xiaohong into the circle of light shrouded by the white ribbon, and started running.
We followed one after another in the order arranged by Lu Xiaohong.
The ribbon was not wide, and the bright white aperture was just big enough for one person to pass through. The wind blew the green grass that was half a person's height swaying, and if you were not careful, you would touch the grass blades.
I couldn't tell what kind of grass it was. It looked like common bract grass, but there were no serrations on the blades, and there was no white frost on the grass stems. It was so green that it looked more like wheat.
From time to time, I see groups of densely packed black ghost-eating ghost ticks crawling up and down between the grass blades. The soft black backs of the bulging sacs are translucent, and it seems that you can see the slowly moving sap inside.
The toes are as sharp as needles. Looking at them up close will make your scalp numb.
Bai Yao described these soul-devouring ghost ticks as so terrifying that everyone walked on thin ice and trembled.
The closer we get to the ancient city, the more ghostly ticks are on the grass blades. They even sway with the slender grass blades, as if they are ready to jump on people at any time.
Fortunately, those ghostly ghost ticks were extremely afraid of the ribbon showing through the halo, and did not dare to get too close.
Fifteen meters, ten meters away, the ancient city gate is right in front of you.
The gate of the ancient city is about three feet above the grassland. In front of the gate is a three-meter-wide platform paved with white rocks.
The city wall is made of rammed earth poured with glutinous rice slurry. It is gray in color and square, with no signs of weathering over time.
Sean had already jumped onto the platform and was squatting on the ground waiting for us.
Lu Xiaohong also got angry and jumped up. He turned around and stretched out his hand to me, ready to pull me up.
"Yeah, Ruowei, be careful!"
As soon as I took Lu Xiaohong's hand, Shi Xian's scream came from behind me.
Before I could subconsciously look back, Lu Xiaohong had already pulled me up.
As soon as I stood still, Lu Xiaohong jumped off the stone platform again, grabbed Dongzi who was following me, and threw him up.
I didn't care to look at Dongzi who fell to the ground. I looked up under the stone platform and saw Shi Xian slapped Lian Ruowei hard on the back with his good hand.
Lian Ruowei was already nervous, so she grabbed two fistfuls of her hands in the air and staggered forward a few steps. When she was about to fall, Lu Xiaohong held her arm.
But even so, Lian Ruowei's hand still accidentally touched a blade of grass.
A black ghost-eating ghost tick quickly crawled along the grass blades and onto the back of Lian Ruowei's hand.
Lu Xiaohong and Lian Ruowei jumped onto the stone platform.
Bai Yao jumped up from the ribbon, grabbed the back of Shi Xian's neck, and threw him up like trash.
With a muffled "thud" sound, Shi Xian's body hit the city gate studded with copper buckles. He slowly fell to the ground, squirmed and arched his body, and with a muffled groan, he fainted again.
Bai Yao didn't pay attention to Shi Xian anymore, but grabbed Lian Ruowei's hand, held her wrist tightly, pinched the back of her hand upward until it turned white, and said to me quickly: "Long San,
Quick, give me your white dragon scales!"
I handed the dragon scale dagger to Bai Yao and looked at the back of Lian Ruowei's hand.
Lu Xiaohong and Bai Yao were both extremely fast. It only took about five seconds. In a short period of time, the soul-eating tick the size of a peanut had penetrated into the back of Lian Ruowei's hand, leaving only a black spot the size of a rice grain.
Lian Ruowei had big beads of sweat on her forehead, her face became increasingly gray and her expression was painful.
In just an instant, even Ruowei's hair, which had been half-dried by the sun, was once again soaked with sweat.